Tide is one of the newer banks launched in the UK in recent years. Offering business accounts for limited companies (including charities) and sole traders (including freelancers), their simple pricing structure makes it affordable and easy to do your business banking. Their signup process is straightforward and quick allowing you to obtain a sort code and account number, often in just a few minutes.

You will be presented with the Tide website for you to input your email address. Use the email address associated with your Tide account here, and Tide will send a notification to your phone for you to authorise the connection.

You can find the authorisation in the Tide app, by going to the “More” menu, and select “Data permissions”

You will find the QuickFile app pending authorisation in this section. Tap “Authorise”.

Here are a few things to note when connecting your Tide account to QuickFile.

The feed will start importing bank transactions from the date the feed was connected. Transactions that take place prior to this will not be imported by the feed but can be imported from a CSV file. To do this, log into the website and use the “Export Data” option.

QuickFile will only use the necessary API methods to retrieve bank account and transaction data. It is a read-only integration, no transactions will be initiated with this API.

You can revoke access at any time by deleting your feed on QuickFile or by deleting the authorisation from the Tide app.